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Fairest v.1: Wide Awake – Loved it! But sadly they break up the band by the end of the story. I really would have liked to see more of the Snow Queen, Ali Baba, Sleeping Beauty and the bottle imp. I love redemption stories and the Snow Queen is on the road to redemption of sorts but with a rogue by her side it’d be a really interesting take on it.

Hopefully they show up again in another arc. The second volume features Rapunzel so I’ll probably check it out, I like her.

There was a done it one featuring Beauty and the Beast with an dark twist to their story. Curious to see this play out.

Art was great! Phil Jimenez! Two things though, some of the women had a lot of eye shadow (I think, the stuff on the eyelid up to the eyebrow). Nothing wrong or anything it just seems weird seeing so many people wearing it.

Number two, there was a part that was pretty bad. Snow Queen totally looks like a dude. And she has crazy eyes like the White Queen posted yesterday.

I hate Fraction's writing, you can tell how hip and clever he thinks he is when you are reading it.

Do you like anything new?

That’s something I can set aside and enjoy the book. One thing I didn’t like was how Clint had all that money after being an Avenger for the longest time. I remembered he was a crook so I let it go, I’d like to see it acknowledged.

That’s something I can set aside and enjoy the book. One thing I didn’t like was how Clint had all that money after being an Avenger for the longest time. I remembered he was a crook so I let it go, I’d like to see it acknowledged.

I do! I like Fatale, Saga, Prophet, all the Vertigo ongoings pretty much, Walking Dead...I am only a traditionalist when it comes to my Marvel superheroes.

Fucking fuck can't we get a straightforward fucking answer already? For another six issues Spencer drags us around on this leash with letting us stop to sniff the roses. He continues to build upon the dueling faction of Abraham vs. Daramount and doesn't really offer up any closure in this volume. What pisses me off is that it all just builds up to a whole lot of nothing. We're just given more characters to sort through with the Truants and Spencer spends an awfully unnecessary time providing back story for characters who are going to be killed again and again. He seems to want to flesh out characters' true intentions but we don't see them again. His strong suit appears to be telling single stories that contribute to theoverarching theme, but it lends greatly to the fact that he can't completely control parallel narratives as he keeps jumping back and forth between the past and present. In many ways, he takes the LOST/100 Bullets approach in this volume and beats it to bloody hell. Its very uuninviting, but he's apparently writing a story that's meant to be read as a whole, not installments. As usual, the artistic energy of Eisma makes the ever-prolonged mystery bearable but it can only last so long. I will say that I love the coloring in this comic. It really makes the art feel incredibly vibrant. The little flowers between chapters are cool too. Its little things in this series that make the dragging plot a lot easier to digest.

misac wrote:Fairest v.1: Wide Awake – Loved it! But sadly they break up the band by the end of the story. I really would have liked to see more of the Snow Queen, Ali Baba, Sleeping Beauty and the bottle imp. I love redemption stories and the Snow Queen is on the road to redemption of sorts but with a rogue by her side it’d be a really interesting take on it.

Hopefully they show up again in another arc. The second volume features Rapunzel so I’ll probably check it out, I like her.

There was a done it one featuring Beauty and the Beast with an dark twist to their story. Curious to see this play out.

Art was great! Phil Jimenez! Two things though, some of the women had a lot of eye shadow (I think, the stuff on the eyelid up to the eyebrow). Nothing wrong or anything it just seems weird seeing so many people wearing it.

Number two, there was a part that was pretty bad. Snow Queen totally looks like a dude. And she has crazy eyes like the White Queen posted yesterday.

Finished reading the New X-Men Omnibus. I've got to hand it to Morrison, he held the series together extremely well through issue #150. I will say that Planet X was a little rocky but all in all there were some great moments. Unfortunately, the series really fell apart during the "Here Comes Tomorrow" arc. Even with the series ending so poorly, Grant Morrison's New X-Men is a great read and while I would have wished that the art had remained more consistent throughout the entire run, this series is a must have for any X-Men fan.

Well, with New X-Men out of the way, the natural progression obviously has to be Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men Omnibus. I'm only 2 issues in so far, so I won't bother writing much about it yet but I am excited to get through this amazing series one more time.

Keb wrote:I loved Here Comes Tomorrow. It wrapped up the series nicely. It could have been longer though. It felt choppy.

Really? I guess I was fatigued with reading through the entire run as quickly as I did but I just didn't really get in to "Hear Comes Tomorrow" this time around. I remember liking it more the first time I read the series but it just seemed to fall apart this time around for me. I wonder if that doesn't have something to do with me subconsciously remembering all of the horrible retcons that have come since this series ended.

American Vampire 5 - Snyder is so good. Can't wait for this to come back.Batman vol 2. - Snyder is so good. Can't wait for vol. 3Unwritten vol 7 - Still good, but not as good as Lucifer. OMAC by Kirby HC - One of my favorite Kirby creations, excellent stuff.Batman and Robin vol 1 by Tomasi - no interest in this really but the library had it. Decent, though. Wonder Woman vol 2 - Azzarello definitely belongs in the "Brian Wood" category, ie I've read tons of issues they have written but don't really like their work. Fantastic Four visionaries John Byrne 4 - 8. Read the first Byrne omni, didn't want to wait to finish his run. Good stuff, if a bit dated. And long-winded.

Grayson wrote:Really? I guess I was fatigued with reading through the entire run as quickly as I did but I just didn't really get in to "Hear Comes Tomorrow" this time around. I remember liking it more the first time I read the series but it just seemed to fall apart this time around for me. I wonder if that doesn't have something to do with me subconsciously remembering all of the horrible retcons that have come since this series ended.

Yeah part of the reason why I don't like to read X-Men comics is because of all the retcons they've done for most if not all of what Morrison tried to do with the franchise.